4. THE PROBLEM OF PRACTICAL MACRO-REGIONAL / REGIONAL DIVISION OF THE WORLD SPACE The spatial (spatial, or planar) division of the world in international relations proceeds from the internal civilizational-geographical and cultural-political logic of countries ' development, i.e., from the definition of an international-political macroregion as a regional set of phenomena linked to a territorial-economic and national-cultural complex2, united by a common structure and logic in such a way that this structure is determined by the the logic and historical and geographical coordinates of its existence are mutually dependent. Such a definition of a region as the basic concept of global/world regional studies (global/world regional studies) and at the same time auxiliary in international relations allows us to arrange the material in a certain spatial (spatial/planar) coordinate system. Based mainly on geographical parameters, it is possible to distinguish geographical macroregions, mesoregions (middle regions), as well as individual regions and sub-regions based on their physical and geographical characteristics. This is how we distinguish the world's continents (America, Africa, Eurasia, Australia, Antarctica, subdividing them, in turn, into subcontinents). A region in a broad sense is understood as a certain territory, which is a complex territorial-economic and national-cultural complex, which can be limited by the signs of the presence, intensity, diversity and interconnectedness of phenomena, which are expressed in the form of a specific uniformity of geographical, natural, economic, socio-historical, national-cultural conditions, which serve as the basis for to select this territory. Based on historical and cultural parameters, we can distinguish historical and cultural regions: Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indian, Indo-Iranian, Turkic, Arabic, Russian, and European. North American, Latin American, and African regions are grouped into corresponding regional communi ... Читать далее